Cloud Computing in Taiwan
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Cloud Computing in Taiwan
William Cheng-Chung Chu and Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Chih-Wei Lu, Chih-Hung Chang, and Juei-Nan Chen, Hsiuping University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Hahn-Ming Lee, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Cloud computing is changing the computing environment: scalable, virtualized resources are increasingly provided as services over the Internet. Taiwan is also changing, transforming itself from a hardware manufacturing island into a cloud village offering both services and resources.
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loud computing is increasingly popular,1,2 and it is changing the face of computing altogether. In cloud computing, which offers tremendous opportunities even as it poses major challenges, resources that are both dynamically scalable and virtualized are today provided routinely as services over the Internet.3,4 Taiwan is now confronting this shift in computing. For the past two decades, the country has flourished as an information and communications technology (ICT) manufacturing island, with several ICT hardware products having achieved market-leader status worldwide. Taiwan’s goal, however, is to transform itself from an ICT island into a cloud village. In 2009, the government initiated the Cloud Computing Industry Development Program (CCIDP)—which extended the country’s earlier E-Taiwan (electronic), M-Taiwan (mobile), and I-Taiwan (intelligent) projects that addressed different aspects of Taiwan’s communication infrastructure—to promote cloud computing from the standpoints of supply, demand, and management.
Taiwan has integrated multiple resources—representing government, industry, academia, and research—to initiate strong incentive programs for developing cloud computing. Building on a solid foundation in ICT hardware manufacturing, Taiwan has been successfully migrating from the production of component products, such
Cloud Computing in Taiwan
William Cheng-Chung Chu and Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Chih-Wei Lu, Chih-Hung Chang, and Juei-Nan Chen, Hsiuping University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Hahn-Ming Lee, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Cloud computing is changing the computing environment: scalable, virtualized resources are increasingly provided as services over the Internet. Taiwan is also changing, transforming itself from a hardware manufacturing island into a cloud village offering both services and resources.
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loud computing is increasingly popular,1,2 and it is changing the face of computing altogether. In cloud computing, which offers tremendous opportunities even as it poses major challenges, resources that are both dynamically scalable and virtualized are today provided routinely as services over the Internet.3,4 Taiwan is now confronting this shift in computing. For the past two decades, the country has flourished as an information and communications technology (ICT) manufacturing island, with several ICT hardware products having achieved market-leader status worldwide. Taiwan’s goal, however, is to transform itself from an ICT island into a cloud village. In 2009, the government initiated the Cloud Computing Industry Development Program (CCIDP)—which extended the country’s earlier E-Taiwan (electronic), M-Taiwan (mobile), and I-Taiwan (intelligent) projects that addressed different aspects of Taiwan’s communication infrastructure—to promote cloud computing from the standpoints of supply, demand, and management.
Taiwan has integrated multiple resources—representing government, industry, academia, and research—to initiate strong incentive programs for developing cloud computing. Building on a solid foundation in ICT hardware manufacturing, Taiwan has been successfully migrating from the production of component products, such
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